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<h4><a href='/locations/D/Debden'>Debden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Ongar_Extension_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Debden station, LUL Central Line, looking towards Epping on 1st July 2012. This was opened by the GER as Chigwell Lane in 1865 with the extension of the line from Loughton to Ongar and was first served by tube trains on 25th September 1949 with electrification to Epping. On the same date, it was renamed Debden after the vast new post war LCC estate that grew up in the fields to the north and north-east of Loughton. In 1973, the rather cramped Victorian station entrance (which I remember well as I grew up in Loughton) was replaced by a modern building but the former station house survives, out of view on the left. The canopy over the footbridge also dates from the same time. 1/30</p><p>01/07/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Buckhurst_Hill'>Buckhurst Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Buckhurst Hill, Essex, seen from LUL 1992 stock on a Central Line service to Epping, on 24th July 2012. This station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1892, replacing the Eastern Counties Railway station of 1856 and was first served by tube trains when LT electrification was extended from Woodford to Loughton on 21st November 1948. The station house and a short piece of platform of the 1856 station are still there to the south of the present station and once separated by a level crossing, abolished when the line was electrified for tube trains. 2/30</p><p>24/07/2012<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/F/Fairlop'>Fairlop</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/F/Fairlop_Loop_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Fairlop Loop (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock no. 91105 with a Central Line service to Woodford via Hainault arriving at Fairlop station in Essex, on 5th January 2013. This station was opened by the GER in 1903 and was first served by tube trains in 1948. 3/30</p><p>05/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead'>Wanstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Line_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Central Line Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock on a Central Line short working to Newbury Park arriving at Wanstead station, east London, on the afternoon of Saturday, 5th January 2013. The eastern end of the Central Line, from a point just west of Leyton, runs over the former GER Loughton and Epping line as well as most of the Woodford to Ilford section of the Hainault Loop. The new tunnel linking Leytonstone with Newbury Park was complete before World War Two but then the scheme went into abeyance for the duration and the three miles of tunnel were converted into a secret underground factory for the manufacturing of air components by the Plessey Company. A narrow gauge railway was also completed. After the war, everything had to be removed and it was not until 14th December 1947 that Central Line trains first ran through the tunnels. Still, better late than never, the proposed similar electrification of the ex-GNR Alexandra Palace branch in north London as part of the LUL Northern Line, likewise begun before 1939, was never completed after 1945 and the line closed in 1954, leaving residents of Crouch End and Muswell Hill dependant only on buses ever since. 4/30</p><p>05/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/G/Gants_Hill'>Gants Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Line_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Central Line Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>The lower concourse between the platforms at Gants Hill station, on the eastern extension of the LUL Central Line between Leytonstone and Newbury Park, on 5th January 2013. This opened on 14th December 1947 in the last month of the LPTB and was an attempt to liken it to the stations on the Moscow Underground. The tunnels on this section were more or less complete at the outbreak of World War Two but were converted into a secret underground factory, three miles long, for the manufacturing of aircraft components by the Plessey Company. A narrow gauge railway was laid to transport the materials. Work resumed on the Central Line extension almost immediately the war finished and the concrete flooring and narrow gauge tracks had to be removed. 5/30</p><p>05/01/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Theydon_Bois'>Theydon Bois</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Ongar_Extension_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock no. 91277 on a Central Line service to Epping arriving at its penultimate stop at Theydon Bois, in rural Essex, on 20th April 2013. This station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 24th April 1865 with the extension of the former Eastern Counties Railway's Stratford to Loughton branch to Ongar and was first served by LUL tube trains on 25th September 1949 with the extension of electrification from Loughton to Epping. 6/30</p><p>20/04/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock no. 91301 with a Central Line service to West Ruislip arriving at Snaresbrook station in east London on 21st April 2013. This station was originally opened by the Eastern Counties Railway with the line from Stratford to Loughton on 22nd August 1856 which passed to the Great Eastern Railway on 1st January 1862 and then to the London & North Eastern Railway on 1st January 1923. The station was first served by London Underground tube trains when electrification was extended from Leytonstone to Woodford on 14th December 1947. The bay platform on the eastbound side by the railings (left) was abolished in 1949; its track-bed and the former goods yard now form the station car park. 7/30</p><p>21/04/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Loughton'>Loughton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Ongar_Extension_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock on a Central Line train to Epping departing from Loughton station, on 23rd December 2013. This is the Essex town's third station; the first was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 22nd August 1856 as the terminus of the line from Stratford. It was replaced with a new station by the Great Eastern Railway which extended the line to Ongar on 24th April 1865, the extension diverging just outside the original terminus which became a goods yard. In anticipation of the electrification of the line for LPTB Central Line trains, the present station was opened on 21st April 1940 but World War Two delayed the scheme and it was 21st November 1948 before tube trains reached Loughton with extension to Epping on 25th September 1949. The goods yard on the site of the 1856 station remained open until 1966, served by steam trains using the original ECR route between Stratford (Loughton Branch Junction) and Leyton and which remained in use for early morning DMU staff trains until 1970. 8/30</p><p>23/12/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Debden'>Debden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Ongar_Extension_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock no. 91267 with a Central Line service to Epping arriving at Debden station in Essex, on 1st January 2014. This station was opened as Chigwell Road, later Chigwell Lane, by the GER on 24th April 1865 when the line was extended from Loughton to Ongar. It was renamed Debden when the line was electrified and tube trains extended from Loughton to Epping on 25th September 1949. 9/30</p><p>01/01/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/M/Marble_Arch'>Marble Arch</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_London_Railway'>Central London Railway</a></small></p><p>Gaudy murals at Marble Arch, seen from eastbound train of LUL 1992 stock waiting to depart with a Central Line service to Epping, on 18th January 2014. This station, situated in the heart of London's West End, was opened on 30th July 1900 with the first stage of the Central London Railway from Shepherd's Bush to Bank. Now part of the much extended Central Line to which it was renamed by the LPTB in 1937. 10/30</p><p>18/01/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Epping'>Epping</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Ongar_Extension_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of the unspoiled Epping station, opened by the Great Eastern Railway with the extension of the branch from Loughton to Ongar on 24th April 1865 and first served by LUL Central Line trains on 25th September 1949 with electrification from Loughton, seen here on 7th June 2014. Electrification was extended to Ongar in 1957 but this section closed in 1994 and most is now the heritage Epping/Ongar Railway. This doesn't run quite as far as Epping (at the moment) so, standing proudly outside the station, is vintage RT 1700 offering a service to the line at North Weald before continuing on through Ongar and then all the way to Shenfield via Brentwood. This follows most of the route of the old 339 bus service I used frequently as a boy but which terminated at Warley and not Shenfield. If you like vintage bus rides through the Essex countryside, this is the service for you! 11/30</p><p>07/06/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Snaresbrook, LUL Central Line, looking towards central London, on 27th July 2014. This station, the prettiest in east London, was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 22nd August 1856 and first served by tube trains on 14th December 1947 with the extension of electrification from Leytonstone to Woodford. A bay platform once existed on the down side but was closed in 1949 and is now part of the car park. When I still lived at home with my parents and first started work, I went through this station every day on my daily commute from Loughton to Holborn in the then LU 1962 tube stock for about five years until I flew the nest. 12/30</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Eastern Counties Railway</a></small></p><p>The splendid Eastern Counties Railway entrance building to Snaresbrook station in east London, now part of the LUL Central Line. View south east from Station Approach on 27th July 2014. [Ref query 18 January 2019] 13/30</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/Wanstead'>Wanstead</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_Line_Extension_London_Passenger_Transport_Board'>Central Line Extension (London Passenger Transport Board)</a></small></p><p>The rather plain exterior of Wanstead station, opened on 14th December 1947 with the Central Line extension from Leytonstone to Newbury Park, on 27th July 2014. The tunnels on this extension were complete before the start of World War Two and were converted into an underground factory for the manufacturing of aircraft components by the Plessey Company throughout the duration of the war. 14/30</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Roding_Valley'>Roding Valley</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock with a Central Line service to Woodford via Hainault at Roding Valley station on 27th July 2014. This station, on the GER's 1903 Hainault Loop, was not opened until 1936 by the LNER as Roding Valley Halt and was upgraded and rebuilt as a station for tube trains which followed completion of electrification of the former steam line from Woodford to Hainault (and from Woodford to Loughton) on 21st November 1948. 15/30</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/R/Roding_Valley'>Roding Valley</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/G/Great_Eastern_Railway'>Great Eastern Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock with a Central Line service from Woodford to Ealing Broadway via Hainault arriving at Roding Valley station on 27th July 2014. The train has just diverged from the Epping branch of the Central Line, this station being within view of the junction from Epping-bound trains. Since the closure of Blake Hall station in November 1981 on the Epping to Ongar section of the Central Line (that has now been partially reopened as the heritage Epping Ongar Railway) Roding Valley station has taken on the mantle of the least-used London Underground station. This is somewhat surprising since, despite its rural-looking appearance, it is surrounded by 1930s housing, the very reason it was opened as Roding Valley Halt by the LNER in 1936. First served by LUL tube trains on 21st November 1948 following electrification of the ex-LNER line between Woodford and Hainault, which date also saw the electrification of the line between Woodford and Loughton, tube trains eventually reaching Epping on 25th September 1949. 16/30</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Buckhurst_Hill'>Buckhurst Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Buckhurst Hill station, Essex, LUL Central Line, looking towards central London on 10th October 2014. This line was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway from Stratford to Loughton on 22nd August 1856, becoming part of the Great Eastern Railway in 1862. The GER extended from Loughton to Ongar on 24th April 1865 and in 1892 opened the present station, just north of the original which was closed. The 1856 building can be seen in the far background and it has a short piece of low platform in front of it. Between the two was Queens Road level crossing, which was abolished when LU electrification was extended from Woodford to Loughton on 21st November 1948. Growing up in Loughton and still living at home with my parents, for the first few years after leaving school I travelled through this station every weekday on the LU 1962 stock trains when commuting to and from Holborn for work. 17/30</p><p>10/10/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Buckhurst_Hill'>Buckhurst Hill</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Buckhurst Hill station in Essex, opened by the GER in 1892, replacing the earlier Eastern Counties station of 1856 and seen here looking towards Epping on 10th October 2014. Central Line tube trains began running through here when they were extended from Woodford to Loughton on 21st November 1948. Growing up in Loughton, I would pass through this station on my daily commute to Holborn and back and joining the train at Loughton station was always guaranteed a seat, not so easy for the homeward journey. In those days, the Central Line was in the hands of 1962 stock with their bay seating. These were much preferable to the 1992 stock now running on the line which, like other present day LUL trains, demonstrates TfL's whole-hearted mania for all longitudinal seating which I dislike intensely. 18/30</p><p>10/10/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/D/Debden'>Debden</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/O/Ongar_Extension_Great_Eastern_Railway'>Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock with a Central Line train from Epping to West Ruislip arriving at Debden station on 27th July 2014. This station, opened by the GER on 24th April 1865, was known as Chigwell Lane until tube trains arrived with the electrification of the former steam line beyond Loughton as far as Epping on 25th September 1949. The main station buildings on the eastbound side (left) were partially rebuilt in 1973 although the original Victorian station house survives. As late as 1946, when still known as Chigwell Lane and then part of the LNER, the station was lit at night by oil lamps which earned it the nickname 'Paraffin Junction'. I grew up in nearby Loughton so this station has been a very familiar sight for most of my life. 19/30</p><p>27/07/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Acton'>North Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock with a Central Line service arriving and terminating at North Acton on 9th February 2019. This train then formed a return service as far as Loughton in Essex. Behind the wall and railings is the site of the GWR station that closed in 1947. Until recently a Parliamentary service between London Paddington and High Wycombe passed the site. 20/30</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Acton'>North Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock train, on a Central Line service to Epping, departing from North Acton on 9th February 2019. The 1904 GWR cut-off line to Birmingham and the site of the GWR's North Acton station, closed in 1947, are on the left but obscured by the bushes. 21/30</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/N/North_Acton'>North Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 Central Line train to Ealing Broadway arriving at North Acton (opened 1923) on 9th February 2019. Though the Ealing & Shepherd's Bush Railway was opened by the GWR in 1920, the Central London Railway (renamed Central Line in 1937) always provided the passenger service.The line was quadrupled in 1937 between North Acton and the point where the Central Line trains joined from Wood Lane (replaced by White City in 1947) with the extra tracks being used to segregate freight trains to and from the West London Line from the tube trains. The freight trains ceased in 1964 and the 1937 tracks were lifted with the junction north of the former Uxbridge Road station severed. Today, while there is still evidence of the extra tracks between North and East Acton, at White City new buildings and roads have completely obscured the link to, and junction with, the West London Line. (For further details of the Ealing & Shepherd's Bush line, see my photo of West Acton (image no. 80248). 22/30</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Acton'>West Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock with a Central Line train to Ealing Broadway calling at its penultimate stop at West Acton, seen from stairwell to westbound platform, on 9th February 2019. This section of the Central Line was promoted by the GWR as the Ealing & Shepherd's Bush Railway but GWR trains never ran, instead Central Line trains were extended over the line from the 1908 terminus at Wood Lane (replaced by White City in 1947) to Ealing Broadway in 1920. East Acton was originally the only intermediate station but North Acton and West Acton were added in 1923. The branch from North Acton to West Ruislip (originally intended to continue to Denham with an intermediate station at South Harefield), was part of the LPTB's 1935 New Works programme, delayed by World War Two, eventually opened in stages in 1947/48. 23/30</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Acton'>West Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>Some cosmetic work is urgently needed on the interior of the entrance hall of West Acton, on the LUL Central Line, as seen here on 9th February 2019. It is a disgrace. 24/30</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Acton'>West Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>The shabby interior of the entrance hall at West Acton, LUL Central Line, on 9th February 2019. 25/30</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Acton'>West Acton</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock with a Central Line train to Ealing Broadway, arriving at its penultimate stop at West Acton on 9th February 2019. This line was opened by the GWR for freight with a passenger service provided by the Central London Railway (now the Central Line) from 3rd August 1920 but West Acton station did not open until 5th November 1923. It was rebuilt by the GWR for the LPTB as part of the latter's 1935 'New Works' programme, the present station replacing the original in November 1940. 26/30</p><p>09/02/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Exterior of Snaresbrook station in east London on Friday the 13th December 2019. This station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway on 22nd August 1856 and first served by London Underground Central Line trains on 14th December 1947.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2217</a> 27/30</p><p>13/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Snaresbrook'>Snaresbrook</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/L/Loughton_Branch_Eastern_Counties_Railway'>Loughton Branch (Eastern Counties Railway)</a></small></p><p>Snaresbrook station, on the eastern section of the LUL Central Line, originally opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1856, looking towards Epping, on Friday 13th December 2019. On the left there was once a bay platform that was removed in 1949, two years after the line was taken over by London Transport. The goods yard, now a car park, survived until 1966, reached by BR steam trains via the original section of the ECR line between Stratford (Loughton Branch Junction) and Leyton and for a further four years was served by early morning DMU staff trains which ran over the electrified tracks as far as Loughton but did not go on to Epping nor round the Hainault Loop. After these ceased, the track between Loughton Branch Junction and Leyton rusted over and was removed in 1973, severing the link between the eastern part of the Central Line and the then BR network. Much of its site has been taken by the M11 Link Road at a lower level, bulldozing part of the embankment away, and which has done more damage to the east London landscape than the railway ever did. 28/30</p><p>13/12/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/H/Holland_Park'>Holland Park</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Central_London_Railway'>Central London Railway</a></small></p><p>LUL 1992 stock on an eastbound Central Line short working to Loughton arriving at Holland Park on 29th May 2021. This station serves the park of that name, and the rather affluent west London neighbourhood of the same name, and opened in 1900 with the first stage of the Central London Railway from Shepherds Bush to Bank. 29/30</p><p>29/05/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/E/Ealing_Broadway'>Ealing Broadway</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherds_Bush_Railway'>Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway</a></small></p><p>LU 1992 stock at the Central Line west London terminus of Ealing Broadway, about to depart east all the way to Hainault via Newbury Park. on the afternoon of Saturday, 12th November 2022. Central London Railway trains from Wood Lane (replaced by White City in 1947) reached here over the GWR built tracks of the Ealing & Shepherd Bush Railway on 3rd August 1920, renamed Central Line by the LPTB in 1937. 30/30</p><p>12/11/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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